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Sunday, July 22, 2012

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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.- Robert Zend

"I long to accomplish a great and nobletask, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller

The ego will not go with laughter or caresses. It must be chased in sorrow and drowned in tears. - A Persian expression

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. - Dalai Lama

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood
equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the
analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of
experience, involuntarily amassed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter Of Modern Life And Other Essays

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation
of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this
nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens
us. Let us choose. ”
― Charles Baudelaire

(“La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté
Luxe, calme et volupté)

There, there is nothing else but grace and measure,
Richness, quietness, and pleasure.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words
the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and
characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities:
supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are
attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas
for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a
serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere,
in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals

“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation
of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this
nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens
us. Let us choose. ”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare

“So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk. ”
― Charles Baudelaire

“He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all
the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,
because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He
was forever in the act of conceiving it!”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Nature is a temple, where the living
Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech;
Man walks within these groves of symbols, each
Of which regards him as a kindred thing.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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Jennifer believes we live in the garden of Eden and I believe that we are destroying it. Our saving grace is within ourselves, our faith, and our mindfulness. We need to make a conscious effort to respect and preserve all life.

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